
Trade Finance In Wartime
The huge drop-off in trade involving Russia and Ukraine has hit trade finance hard.
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The huge drop-off in trade involving Russia and Ukraine has hit trade finance hard.
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The Covid-19 pandemic created some waves in the foreign exchange markets over the last couple of years, but the re-emergence of global inflation and inflation-fighting central banks has truly rocked the currency world this year.
During the pandemic some of the largest companies in the world grew while others shrank. Global Finance compares two of the best-known rankings of company size with its own list of the world's Top 10 by market capitalization to provide a comprehensive picture of global corporate goliaths.
Global Finance editor Andrea Fiano interviews Ásgeir Jónsson, Central Bank Governor of Iceland during Global Finance's World's Best Bank Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on October 15th.
China’s tactics taint trade partnerships with Africa.
Developed by the African Export-Import Bank that serves as a broker for most of the payment systems and logistics, trading on the new business-to-business e-commerce platform Africa Trade Exchange started on May 11.
New trading partners seek to gain sway, but former colonial powers are well-entrenched.
South Africa's court sides with the inventor of "Please Call Me" at Vodacom's expense.
At the tender age of 26, Alex Rodrigues became the youngest current CEO of a US-based publicly traded company after the trucking software company he founded, Embark Trucks, went public on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
South Africa faces the conundrum of widening income disparities even in times of rising growth.
Can a career businessman and management expert turn around Zambia's grim economic trajectory?
Sudan's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorist list will not be pain-free.
"America First" allows China to take economic leadership of East Asia.
Stripe's acquisition is part of a wider trend of African fintech startups defying the odds during the global pandemic to bag multimillion-dollar M&A deals.
Orange skips brick-and-mortar retail locations in West Africa for an online banking service instead.
French telco giant consolidates its African holdings to prepare the way for further expansion.
Within Sub-Saharan Africa, mobile money providers have waived or reduced transaction fees while governments are encouraging digital payments as a strategy to wean off person-to-person contact.
Brexit is a loss for Europe but it could turn into a win for Africa.
Helios Towers' IPO paves the way for expanding and upgrading its services in Africa where demand is growing rapidly.
China's rise is boosting the economies of African nations.
African companies get a boost from the London Stock Exchange.
Bank merger will create a major new player on the African banking scene.
Almost a decade after the Arab Spring dictators are still not secure.